February 2012
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Tiny, implantable medical device can propel itself... →
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Stanford engineers develop a high-frequency, wirelessly powered device with an antenna small enough to fit in the bloodstream
Someday, your doctor may turn to you and say, “Take two surgeons and call me in the morning.” If that day arrives, you may just have Ada Poon to thank.
Yesterday, at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) before an audience of her...
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Watchmohandasgandhi:
Russ Feingold on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Former Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold critiques the United States’ failures in dealing with al Qaeda after 9/11, stressing the importance of the U.S. making a concerted effort to learn more about the world as human relations grow more complicated.
Feingold, a major advocate of comprehensive campaign finance reform and co-author...
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Futurescope: Google to sell heads-up display... →
Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time will go on sale to the public by the end of the year, according to unnamed Google employees, the New York Times Bits blog reports.
They will be Android-based and will include a small screen that…
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Scoping the cost of the world's biggest new... →
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The world’s most powerful telescope – the new Square Kilometre Array (SKA) – is likely to need the world’s biggest computer to handle the incredible amount of data it will produce − and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) is working out how to do it without breaking the bank.
ICRAR – a joint venture between Curtin University and The University of...
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“Evolution is the control of development by ecology…”
– Van Valen, 1973 (via a really good post by PZ Meyers)
If you really want to understand the different disciplines within biology, you need to understand the time scales over which each are studied. There’s a helpful little table in this article that you should check out. Every field within biology...
Faster-than-light neutrino results were due to a... →
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And not just any mistake. A LOOSE CABLE.
“There was a good reason the measurements and reality weren’t lining up: a loose fiber optic cable was causing one of the atomic clocks used to time the neutrinos’ flight to produce spurious results.”
oops
KNEW IT!
AHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
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